Ravi Krishnaswami
Composer + Sound Designer For Media + Games
Musicologist/Ethnomusicologist  
Songwriter + Producer + Occasional Guitar Hero 
Music Educator + Writer + Thinker

About Ravi Krishnaswami
Ravi Krishnaswami is an award-winning composer, songwriter and sound designer for media and games. His credits include Super Bowl commercials, AAA video games, top-rated iPad apps, flagship retail installations, iconic television themes, network IDs, and numerous short and feature length films. His work has been recognized by the Cannes Lions, AICP, AMP, London International Awards, Hollywood Reporter Key Art Awards, and the Game Marketing Awards. As co-founder, creative director and lead composer at COPILOT, he has worked on ads and interactive media for clients such as GE, AT&T, Visa, Verizon and World Wildlife Fund, and has created original music for video game franchises including Fallout, Dishonored, Wolfenstein, Tetris and BattleCry. His TV and film work includes credits for HBO and ESPN. 

Ravi is currently the Joseph E. and Grace W. Valentine Visiting Professor of Music at Amherst College and a PHD candidate at Brown University, where he is researching automation and AI in music for media.. He is the guitar player and a founding member of the international renowned Smiths/Morrissey tribute band The Smiths Tribute NYC and has released a folktronica/pop album under the name HYBIRD. Prior to these bands he led the indie-pop band Charming. 

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COPILOT Music + Sound
Vermont College of Fine Arts
Brown University
HYBIRD